Xiaomi Mijia Smart Audio Glasses hands-on | Infinium-tech

Smart glasses are very popular these days, and although Xiaomi’s latest offering isn’t the smartest option, it offers a premium design and some generally useful features. The Mijia Smart Audio Glasses include built-in speakers in the temples, which means you get an open earbud experience in the glasses. It is paired with quad microphones for hands-free calls and the ability to record calls and audio in your surroundings.

We got the Titanium version, which costs €199, although Xiaomi is also offering Browline and Pilot styles, the latter offering UV400 protection. The traditional lenses of our units block 25% of all incoming blue light, making them an ideal companion for long hours in front of a computer screen.

The Titanium model is also the lightest of the group, coming in at just over 34 grams including the lens. This is due in part to the 5mm thin temples, which are made of plastic. The lenses can be changed according to the prescription if you need. The glasses are IP54-rated against dust and water splashes, meaning they can handle moderate amounts of rain.

The touch sensors on the Mijia Smart Audio Glasses are well spaced and easy to work with

We can safely say that the Mijia Smart Glasses are comfortable to wear all day long, but they do feel a little heavier than regular glasses with prescription lenses. For controls, Xiaomi used large touch sensors located at the midpoint of the temples. They are well spaced and register taps without any problems.

The retail package includes a nice artificial leather spring top pouch, a cleaning cloth and an interesting charger. It attaches to both ends of the temples via magnets and then connects both ends to a USB-C port, which can be plugged into any charger.

Mijia Smart Audio Glasses come with a nice set of accessories and an interesting charger

Xiaomi claims that you can expect up to 13 hours of playback from the speaker, while a full recharge from 0 to 100% should take around an hour.

The build quality here is excellent, and we can definitely see how the Mijia Smart Audio Glasses could appeal to regular glasses-wearers who use wireless earbuds or headphones in their day-to-day. It’s great to have a two-in-one solution, and as someone who wears glasses 8+ hours a day, it was refreshing to not have extra earphones or earbuds to cover my ears.

In terms of sound quality, the built-in speakers don’t impress, and they aren’t very loud either. However, they’re fine for casual use, and even good enough for calls as long as you’re in a relatively quiet environment. They also have a privacy mode, which claims to reduce sound leakage, although we can’t guarantee its effectiveness at high volume levels.

The Mijia Smart Audio Glasses connect to any device via Bluetooth 5.4 and support dual device pairing like most modern wireless earbuds. In our brief time with it, we had no issues with connectivity, which remained solid even when paired with the iPhone 17 Pro and MacBook Pro 14.

The glasses come with a wear detection sensor that pauses and resumes media playback when you take them off and put them back on.

Xiaomi has a dedicated Xiaomi Glasses app, which is used to control additional features. It’s a very simple companion app that allows you to reassign gesture controls, manage connected devices, and recordings.

xiaomi glasses app

The glasses have a built-in recording feature, which can be toggled via a long press on either side of the temples. You can also record calls and audio playing on the glasses. The glasses can also read incoming notifications out loud if you agree to grant permissions to the Xiaomi Glasses app.

That’s all you get with Mijia Smart Audio Glasses. They may not be the most feature-rich smart glasses on the market, but they offer excellent build quality, pleasing sound quality, and some clever features like audio and call recording.

Adding a camera would be a logical step for their successors, and it will be interesting to see what Xiaomi has planned next for the high-risk smart glasses market.